WB Games Montreal, the creators of Gotham Knights and Batman Arkham Origins, has just started working on another AAA game in a popular franchise.
Warner Bros. Montreal, the studio behind Gotham Knights and before that Batman Arkham Origins (that prequel to the Rocksteady saga that many consider their favorite of the saga) has been working on another game for some time now. Or several?
This week a job offer in the Canadian studio was shared on Reddit, for Creative Director, with the aim of leading the team in the prototype and production phase, in “innovation and quality.”
Two and a half years ago, we already told you about a game that had been in development since 2019… so we assume (and pray) that this title the job offer refers to is another game that is starting now.. .and that the previous game has not been cancelled.
Is there a future in the Arkham or Gotham universe?
Gotham Knights, the studio's previous game, came out in 2021 as a spiritual (non-canon) successor to the Batman Arkham games, but with two-person cooperative multiplayer (although it had four playable characters, Batgirl, Robin, Nightwing and Red Hood). in Gotham City).
Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League, the game from Rocksteady, original creators of the Batman Arkham saga, has just been released… and it has been a resounding failure.
In fact, with an average of 500 simultaneous players per day on Steam, the Suicide Squad game has the same players as Gotham Knights, despite the fact that it came out two and a half years earlier (and both with very bad reviews).
Warner Bros. Discovery recently acknowledged the poor results of Suicide Squad. Gotham Knights also did not perform well, and a year later it was given “free” on PS Plus and Game Pass.
However, its management still wants to focus on games as a service, despite the continuous setbacks they have had. His biggest success, Hogwarts Legacy, couldn't be further from GaaS… but David Zaslav still sticks to his guns.
So there's a pretty good chance that this new, or new, games in WB Montrealsean o no de Batman, Superman o DC Comics, sean online-focused games with components as a service. Will they be able to stumble on the same stone three times?